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Sentences starting with familiar

Familiar to her too was the aromatic scent of kyphi,--[incense]--which filled the hall, although fresh air was constantly pouring in from outside through the high windows. [10]
Familiar as King had been with these Springs, accustomed as the artist was to foreign Spas, the scene was a surprise to both. [4]
Familiar to me as were the features of Mr. Gladstone, I looked upon him with astonishment. [6]

Sentences ending with familiar

In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
Presently these thoughts were distracted by the sight of a back strangely familiar. [9]
The short day was drawing to a close, shadows were gathering in the corners of Ditmar's room as she reached the threshold and gazed about her at the objects there so poignantly familiar. [9]
Here Rembrandt is to be seen in his glory; here Van der Helst, Jan Steen, Gerard Douw, Teniers the younger, Hondekoeter, Weenix, Ostade, Cuyp, and other names as familiar. [4]
This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
But I thought this would not be allowable, and, armed with an umbrella, I set off along the road, with which I was perfectly familiar. [10]
The description of the place and of the man was familiar. [11]
The principal of the institution should also aid by his counsel the choice of the young men with whose talents and tastes long intercourse had rendered him familiar. [10]
Of the activities that presented themselves to him, army service was the simplest and most familiar. [2]
She is certainly something unusual, that will fit no mould with which I am familiar. [10]

Short sentences using familiar

Rousseau was familiar with them. [4]
How familiar that sounded! [5]
His face, too, seemed familiar. [10]
You are too familiar. [5]
Every corner was familiar. [11]
Familiar? [5]

Sentences containing familiar two or more times

People want to see her play because her name is familiar, but they don't know what made it familiar, because they don't remember. [5]
As I sat overpowered by the magnitude of the bet the door opened, and he appeared with another man, not one with whose face I was then familiar, though as a duke and owner of great possessions, he was familiar to society. [11]
I have in mind a poem just now which is familiar to you all, familiar to everybody. [5]
The hardest thing in this world to get used to is the absence of a familiar footstep and the cheerful greeting of a familiar eye. [11]
When one is familiar with such cities in the other parts of the world he is in effect familiar with the cities of Australasia. [5]
When her trouble comes to her"--Charley's needle slipped and pierced his finger to the bone--"when her father goes, as he must, I fear, there will be no familiar face; she will hear no familiar voice. [11]

More example sentences with the word familiar in them

I take it you are strangers to this great thorough fare, but I am entirely familiar with it. [5]
I was not yet familiar with life, but I had learned to look about with open eyes. [10]
As for the yellowness like a garment, that is too familiar to the eyes of all who have ever looked on the hideous mask of confluent variola. [3]
The letter was written in a very lively and exceedingly familiar vein. [6]
Finding the familiar, worn arm of the chair, he seated himself with a heavy sigh. [11]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
Everybody had friends with whom they were on far more familiar terms. [10]
She was familiar with whatever Grecian art had created, and the animated conversation became a bewitching spectacle. [10]
You are familiar with Vasari, of course? [6]
Barbara was familiar with this flourishing place, above which proudly towered the Trausnitzburg, for here lived her uncle Wolfgang Lorberer, who had married her mother's sister, and was a member of the city Council. [10]
They both brought with them so many reminiscences of familiar scenes and events, that it was like going back for the moment to Oxbow Village. [6]
She was familiar with the way they were going, but its length seemed to have stretched tenfold. [10]
He was familiar with the routine of the business, he had adaptability, he was a quick worker, and for a fortnight things went swimmingly. [11]
The wooden clock with the round face and quaint landscape below--the family's most cherished heirloom--though long familiar, was not so bad; but the two yellowed engravings on the wall offended her. [9]
He was familiar with the rooms of the Golden Cross, and before midnight would have posted the singers and musicians so that his Majesty would first learn through his ears the pleasure which they intended to bestow upon him. [10]
Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
I cannot close with the familiar 'Rejoice'--the 'Fresh Courage' placed on many a tombstone seems more appropriate. [10]
We are familiar with the different "forms of water. [4]
She was familiar with one of the prisons, whose doors she had opened to many a hapless mortal whose disappearance, in her opinion, might be of service to the Queen. [10]
Everyone is familiar with Joshua's later life, so rich in action, and how he won in battle a new home for his people. [10]
We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarterdeck and view this one from a distance. [5]
She was familiar with everything in Rome, the desires and struggles of the contending parties, as well as the characters of the men who were directing affairs, their qualities, views, and aims. [10]
Most Englishmen familiar with Claridge Pasha's life and aims will ask--" An exclamation broke from the old man. [11]
She was familiar with both, and had seen them garlanded, adorned with flags and coats of arms, and even witnessed the erection of the stage in the hall and the stretching of the canopy above it. [10]
I became familiar with all the intrigues, the designs of the Bonapartes; and what I did not know was told me by Prince Pierre, who was near my own age, and who used me always more like a friend than a servant. [11]
He replied, therefore, with a smile, as one to whom the question suggested a very familiar class of facts. [6]
He had lived with "a familiar spirit" so long, he feared the issue of this next excursion into the fens of crime. [11]
I think it will please the sorrowing woman, when she lands, to see your familiar face, which will remind her of happier days. [10]
Quis cus-(On the whole, as this quotation was not entirely new, and, being in a foreign language, might not be familiar to all the boarders, I thought I would not finish it. [6]
All the men who are distinguished in political life become so familiar to the readers of "Punch" in their caricatures, that we know them at sight. [6]
One with a white plume in his hat seemed familiar to Rostov; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which Rostov fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. [2]
By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable--how do you who are familiar with it answer it? [5]
He chose Verdun, where Pestalozzi was then living, as his place of residence, and made himself thoroughly familiar with his method of education. [10]
I don't know what; but it's familiar like. [11]
The thought of what may be to come grows more familiar to my mind; but it is a sad, dreary guest. [14]
Several people who were thoroughly familiar with Alexandria had acted as guides. [10]
The main body were drawn up in front of the mines and, familiar with the signal which requested negotiations, asked their commander for an interview. [10]
Jeff Thatcher immediately went forward, to be familiar with the great man and be envied by the school. [5]
As the days went by, Lord Montague, in high and confident spirits, became more and more a familiar inmate of the house. [4]
Its branches are well known to Europe and America under the familiar name of maccaroni. [6]
He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited. [2]
He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun. [9]
That body was weak, but the spirit in it was the spirit of Joan of Arc; and out of that came the steadfast answer which these people were already so familiar with and detested so sincerely: "Let come what may. [5]
About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
And what shall we do with Pope's "Essay on Man," which has furnished more familiar lines than "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" both together? [6]
The easy, familiar way in which she spoke surprised and pleased me. [6]
One gentleman, who was very familiar with American literature, said he had never seen it mentioned in any book. [5]
How delightful it was to saunter down the winding road into a region of peace and calm; to see from the safe highway the great giants in all their majesty; to come to vegetation, to the company of familiar trees, and the haunts of men! [4]
Her first impulse was to assure herself that nothing was changed in the familiar objects around her. [6]
The cyanide process was new to me, and full of interest; and among the costly and elaborate mining machinery there were fine things which were new to me, but I was already familiar with the rest of the details of the gold-mining industry. [5]
As yet he was like a returned traveller who does not quickly recognise old familiar things, and who is struggling with vague suggestions and forgotten events. [11]
Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the unaccustomed position of having to maintain a not too familiar and not too distant line of deportment. [4]
Once more I was in the familiar hall with the stairs dividing at the back. [9]
A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type. [9]
Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature. [9]
There is a very old and familiar story, accompanied by a feeble jest, which most of my readers may probably enough have met with in Joe Miller or elsewhere. [6]
From their lofty vantage-ground the giants Gog and Magog, the ancient guardians of the city, contemplated the spectacle below them with eyes grown familiar to it in forgotten generations. [5]
But these fears vanished before a well-trimmed lamp and the familiar aspect of her own room. [12]
The lad was usually no prattler, yet now, merely to boast of his master's familiar intercourse with the king, he had forgotten all caution. [10]
He will go upon the recommendation of two gentlemen of taste and travel whom we met at Baddeck, residents of Maine and familiar with most of the odd and striking combinations of land and water in coast scenery. [4]
I looked again upon the familiar rows of trees which shaded the gravelled promenades where Nick had first seen Antoinette. [9]
Receiving none, he turned towards his more familiar acquaintance. [12]
And Pierre, without trying to change the other's views and without condemning him, but with the quiet, joyful, and amused smile now habitual to him, was interested in this strange though very familiar phenomenon. [2]
Every step I took was familiar, yet unfamiliar too. [11]
The worthies who took care of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, like the Revolutionary heroes, fought (with disease) and bled (their patients) and died (in spite of their own remedies); but their names, once familiar, are heard only at rare intervals. [3]
The reader of to-day who has the curiosity to inquire into the correctness of this opinion will, if he is familiar with the romances of the eighteenth century, find little originality in Brown's stories, and nothing distinctively American. [4]
He sobbed, now, to think he should never, never hear that old familiar sound any more--it was very hard, but it was forced on him; since he was driven out into the cold world, he must submit--but he forgave them. [5]
If I were to tell some of my experience, you would recognize California blood in me; I fancy the old, old story would sound familiar, no doubt. [5]
He had ceased to show his face in daylight, now, for a reporter knows everybody, rich and poor, high and low, and cannot well avoid familiar faces in the broad light of day. [5]
It is incredible to reflect that things as familiar all over the world to-day as household words, belong in the history and in the shadowy legends of this silent, mournful solitude. [5]
Appenzelder had intended to practise exercises with his young pupils in the chapel belonging to this old house, familiar to all the inhabitants of Ratisbon, but Wolf found it empty. [10]
I confine myself to life with which I am familiar when pretending to portray life. [5]
She shouted up to him in cheerful accents the greeting familiar to the Hellenes "Rejoice! [10]
When you come to handle life and death as your daily business, your memory will of itself bid good-by to such inmates as the well-known foramina of the sphenoid bone and the familiar oxides of methyl-ethylamyl-phenyl-ammonium. [3]
They are prone to habits,--they frequent reading-rooms,--insurance-offices,--they walk the same streets at the same hours,--so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. [6]
When you come to glance at the tale you will recollect it--it is as common and familiar as the Tar Baby. [5]
I don't seem to get at it, somehow, but there's something about you that is just as familiar to me as--" "Likely it might be his hat," murmured the Ass, with innocent, sympathetic interest. [5]
Cynthia was about to fold up the paper and send it to Miss Lucretia, whom she thought it would amuse, when her eyes were arrested by the sight of a familiar name. [9]
He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat. [2]
I was unknown to a great number of the men of both villages, and familiar with but very few-- chiefly those with whom I had a gossiping acquaintance. [11]
Ideas, at certain times, throng for admission into the world; and we are all familiar with the fact that the same important idea (never before revealed in all the ages) occurs to separate and widely distinct minds at about the same time. [4]
From time to time he stopped to listen and heard only the usual familiar bark of coyote and sweep of wind and rustle of sage. [13]
The thought of throwing it off with his life, as too grievous to be borne, was familiar to his lonely hours, but he rejected it as unworthy of his manhood. [6]
So I passed through the vacant streets, still seeing the town as it was, and not as it is, and recognizing and metaphorically shaking hands with a hundred familiar objects which no longer exist; and finally climbed Holiday's Hill to get a comprehensive view. [5]
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners. [9]
He was conducted through a glass gallery, an anteroom, and a hall, which were familiar to him, into a long low study at the door of which stood an adjutant. [2]
The two or three who had really been on a sort of familiar footing with him found themselves objects of admiring interest with the public and of envy with their shopmates. [5]
It was after three o'clock before he caught sight of the familiar crest of Farewell Mountain, and the train ran into Harwich. [9]
The sound of those familiar words, spoken by accident as they were, opened the way to a better understanding, as nothing else could possibly have done. [11]
Among other noticeable things, there is a dazzling, intense whiteness about the distant Alpine snow, when the sun is on it, which one recognizes as peculiar, and not familiar to the eye. [5]
In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
I speak of these because I am more familiar with them than with any other German papers. [5]
A figure appeared there whose aspect was familiar to hardly a dozen persons present. [5]

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